I'm thinking sooner than that since they are in beta now. More like 1st quarter of 2014. If you havent already, goto your battle.net account and make sure you opt in beta, you might get an invite pretty quick.

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I'm really enjoying the Hearthstone release. I wonder if Death Knight and Monk decks will be in an expansion? I played some ranked games this weekend and I can see that some people are really spending some money. I got pwned by a couple decks because of epic and legendary cards.

I think I like the Arena format best because it's more of a draft format. I have enjoyed this game more than any new game in 5 years, easily.

I've been playing since November and it's a huge pile of fun. I haven't spent a penny, I just put every piece of gold I get into arena tickets. Those I can reliably turn into 2-3 wins right now (which means I'm still winning less than half the time, so I'm not all that great) so I can get a key. That seems to net me some decent stuff.

For new people, the first thing you should do is get all the other achievements you can (level up all the classes to 10, do stuff against the AI, and so on), because that does 3 things:

1.) It builds up the common decks for every class, which when playing unranked can still win you a lot of games2.) It gets you used to the game by playing against an AI player for a few hours while you level up3.) It gets you like 1000 gold so once you figure out how the game works you'll be more prepared for your first steps into the arena.

One thing I wish I'd done is not go to the arena right away - I lost all 3 games and didn't get poop out of it. I've gotten better since then.

I spent $10 so far. I have to be careful not to repeat mistakes of my youth, where I spent way too much on Magic: The Gathering.

I wish they had more than one quest a day, since that's an easy way to earn gold. Also, annoying that arena costs 150 gold or $2. But I guess I can earn that much every 3 days or less.

Having had the same issues as a lad I limit myself to a monthly max of a $3 booster purchase. Sure it's more in the long run, but it keeps me from pooping out a ton of money at once. Also, I usually don't even spend that $3.

I just played against someone who put a lot of money into this game. lol I don't know what was still left in his deck, but he played Ysera, Ancient of War, two Force of Nature cards. What's weird is that he was playing unranked games. You'd think if you were going to twink out a deck like that you'd want to climb the ladder.

Not a complaint, jsut amused at how much a.) luck and/or money you need to get those in packs or b.) money you ahve to put into packs to get that kind of dust.

He could have just been testing a deck and not wanting to affect his ranking with an untested, potentially terrible deck?

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He could have just been testing a deck and not wanting to affect his ranking with an untested, potentially terrible deck?

Probably but he kicked my ass.

tanker27 you must be way better at this game than I am, if you've gotten enough packs to fill out the entire set without spending money. I've gotten some OK rewards from the arena (you only have to win 2-3 times to get your 150 gold back in the form of booster packs and whatever else, and my best arena showing was 4 wins) and I'm way short of having everything. I disenchanted a couple of gold-epic cards I got out of packs and built up a couple decent low-cost decks for Paladin and Rogue. Those are my two favorite classes to play.

I played closed beta heavily after the last wipe. They didnt wipe accounts after that, so thats why I almost have a full catalog. For full disclosure I spent 20 bucks in beta just so I had cards to disenchant and craft with. I kept what was good, useful, and missing and disenchanted the rest and crafted most. After that I just played the weekly and daily quests for extra gold to buy packs.

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I was only able to get 5 wins in arena once more in maybe 7 or 8 tries. I think my mana curve for the cards I select may be slightly off. And it seems the nature of the game that there is no perfect deck which can eliminate randomness.

I find that decks that are stacked with 1s, 2, and 3s are the best bang for your buck. In fact when I build decks out I almost completely avoid 5s and 6s. The game is all about synergy. Take for instance the Shaman Murloc deck; Murlocs are all 1s and 2s. Throw a lot of them out there and keep throwing them until round five and then throw out a Bloodlust card (Which is a 5) and those 1s and 2s become devastating.

Same goes for the Questing Adventurer, he gains +1/1 everytime a card is played, pump out 1s and 2s and you'll find you QA at 6/6 in no time.

Of course there are counters to all of these, like a Rogue or Lock control deck. But it all a game of chance.

FWIW most of my wins come from Paladin, Mage, Shaman decks. I also have a druid healing deck that I rarely play but it wins. The gist of that deck is to out heal the opponent.

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Yeah I just played against this hilariously annoying Merloc-based Warlock that just nickled-and-dimed me to death. I think it was 100% Merlocs until he had to choose something else, and then he picked cards that let him draw more cards.

Anyone besides me having trouble with Shaman decks? They just seem so fast. I hate Mana Tide totem!

Priest mind control deck is also really nasty if they have the epic shadow priest cards. 3 or 4 mind control cards then. Shadow Madness, Shadow Priest (forget the name) and of course 10 cost Mind Control. And sometimes they use the Mind Control Tech as well.

I scrapped all my decks except 3 which can win ranked once in a while. Warlock, Rogue, Hunter. I still can't get above rank 18 and stay there.

I scrapped all my decks except 3 which can win ranked once in a while. Warlock, Rogue, Hunter. I still can't get above rank 18 and stay there.

This is where I am, too. I'm at 16 right now, but that's because I got on a bit of a roll, made it up to 15, and then lost a few. Normally I hover from 19-17. I have a Paladin, a Rogue, and a Mage that I made yesterday because my daily quest was winning with a Mage. That last deck is not very good. I like playing Rogue the most. Some Preparation, some Shadowstep, a couple Sinister Strikes and then BAM an 18/18 Van Cleef. doesn't happen very often, though. Usually when I play him he's about 6/6 or 8/8.